Hacker News: darkvertex

New comment by darkvertex in "A History of IDEs at Google"

darkvertex — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:31:44 +0000

Ever tried SSH'ing via "Mosh"? https://mosh.org

New comment by darkvertex in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs"

darkvertex — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:46:31 +0000

A hello-world example of what it looks like, and what running it would validate, would be nice.

It's all very abstractly described in the README and that intro page you linked.

New comment by darkvertex in "Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app"

darkvertex — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:53:58 +0000

Or why not stay fully local with WebLLM... https://webllm.mlc.ai

New comment by darkvertex in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

darkvertex — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:47:05 +0000

You should try making a site with Astro. Load speed is cray cray.

New comment by darkvertex in "Spherical Snake"

darkvertex — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:40:55 +0000

Fun take! Would love to just drag my finger on the sphere to affect the direction instead of the two big buttons.

New comment by darkvertex in "Blob Opera, Community Edition"

darkvertex — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:22:25 +0000

Site is broken, yep. Also tries to load https://opera.addy.ie/files/assets/balloon_6.flat but it's 404.

The original Blob Opera runs just fine: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW... What does this fork do different?

New comment by darkvertex in "Stereo Images of Giant Galaxies"

darkvertex — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:38:57 +0000

Hi there! If you have a Quest 3/3S you should look up "Space Explorers Ultimate Edition", it's free and within it the experience labeled "The ISS Experience" is a beautiful documentary series filmed with 360 cameras sent to film aboard the International Space Station. Some episodes even feature footage filmed outside the station for real, with gorgeous shots of the Earth actually filmed in real outer space attached to the Canadarm robot arm for maneuvering. It's all stereoscopic (3D) video also.

If you have a Quest 2 or 1, I'm very sorry that you can't enjoy that. (Borrow a friend's Quest3 for a weekend I guess.)

ps: I worked for the studio that made the series and was a dev for the custom camera control software webapp that ran on an astronaut's laptop. Crazy fun project.

New comment by darkvertex in "Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments"

darkvertex — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:10:30 +0000

So this reinvents devcontainers? https://containers.dev

Why should we use yours? What does it do better or differently?

New comment by darkvertex in "Ask HN: Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks?"

darkvertex — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:38:31 +0000

Playwright is great. Take a look at Stagehand, it's an AI layer built on top of Playwright: https://www.stagehand.dev (It can run locally.)

New comment by darkvertex in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

darkvertex — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:59:36 +0000

Also if you have the delightful "Playdate" game console, his game Mars After Midnight is charming and not stressful.

New comment by darkvertex in "Show HN: Pyproc – Call Python from Go Without CGO or Microservices"

darkvertex — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:48:22 +0000

This uses UDS (Unix Domain Sockets) to communicate, which are file-like and can be mounted from the host filesystem inside a container.

As long as the socket is writable, the rest of the filesystem(s) don't have to be. Same goes for the networking, which can be very isolated and restricted.

It should be possible to do what you want.

New comment by darkvertex in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

darkvertex — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 16:32:55 +0000

Quantum? That's so yesterday.

https://anycrap.shop/product/holographic-ai-idea-gauge-proje...

New comment by darkvertex in "Show HN: La Touche Musicale PianoConvert"

darkvertex — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:26:26 +0000

Or import MIDI into a music box sheet converter? https://musicboxmaniacs.com/create

New comment by darkvertex in "Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order"

darkvertex — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:40:36 +0000

Yeah! They sell many packs by genre (inventions, music, movies, science, etc) but what's neat is you can mix the cards of multiple genres and the game still works all the same. Very elegant concept.

New comment by darkvertex in "FFmpeg merges WebRTC support"

darkvertex — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:19:18 +0000

WebRTC excels at sub-second latency peer to peer, so you can do near-realtime video, so anywhere that is useful.

Say you wanted to do a virtual portal installation connecting views from two different cities with live audio, you could have ffmpeg feed off a professional cinema or DSLR camera device with a clean audio feed and stream that over WebRTC into a webpage-based live viewer.

Or say you wanna do a webpage that remote controls a drone or rover robot, it would be great for that.

New comment by darkvertex in "Stereographer"

darkvertex — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:43:11 +0000

*Meta, not Meat. Damn autocorrect!

New comment by darkvertex in "Stereographer"

darkvertex — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:24:44 +0000

You should try the new V2 of Meat's incredible DepthAnything model: https://depth-anything-v2.github.io/

It blows MiDaS out of the water imho.

New comment by darkvertex in "Stereographer"

darkvertex — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:22:37 +0000

If you wanna be ultra cheap and your subject is a still scene you can literally just use any camera like your smartphone and take two pics side by side in short succession, distanced apart by your human IPD (Inter-Pupillary Distance.)

Did you know your index finger is roughly 1 IPD from nail to knuckle? This is useful:

Hold your phone sideways, look where your lens is in the horizontal axis and align your left index finger's knuckle such that you're holding the phone edge with it but your knuckle is lined up just above the lens... Snap a pic. (This will be your left eye pic.) — Now keep your left index straight as-is and with your right hand gently grip your phone and slide it horizontally such that the lens previously lined up above your knuckle is now aligned just below the tip of your left index finger nail. Now snap another pic. (This is your right eye pic.)

Now put them in a collage side by side in Photoshop or whatever, and make it small and cross your eyes. If you kept your alignment fairly you should now have a respectable 3D photo.

Voila! 3D photos on the cheap, as long as your subjects stand still between the two pics.

New comment by darkvertex in "Show HN: KittyCal – minimalist PWA calendar app for couples"

darkvertex — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 01:31:37 +0000

You don't need a family calendar. You can make extra calendars and in the settings on web desktop you can share just the one calendar with another friend's Google account, and if you pick the good permissions either of you can make events in it, and it syncs to all who have it, magically: https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?sjid=171696...

New comment by darkvertex in "Show HN: Learn a new language by speaking with AI"

darkvertex — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:40:59 +0000

What do you use for validating pronunciation?

Or do you just use a Speech To Text model and hope the text that comes of it is the expected phrase?